Suzuki Boseki
Suzuki Boseki (鈴木紡績) in Yuki, Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a merchant house of 1906 on the town street whose shop storehouse and main house were registered as Registered Tangible Cultural Properties on February 9, 2005 (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It was built as the shop of a grain merchant, and a ridge tablet names the master carpenter, Nakamura Eijiro.
The Two Buildings
The shop storehouse facing north onto the street is a single-storey plastered building five and a half bays wide, hipped at the west end of its roof and gabled at the east. The main house joined to its south has a single-storey north half of 1906 and a two-storey south half added in 1933, with a curved gabled entrance, a Western room with a coved ceiling and formal rooms upstairs (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Each is described on its own page.
Visiting
The owner is not listed in the Agency record. No official information on public access was found.
References
- Suzuki Boseki Misegura (Database of National Cultural Properties, Agency for Cultural Affairs)
- https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00004509
- Suzuki Boseki Main House (Database of National Cultural Properties, Agency for Cultural Affairs)
- https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00004510
Last verified: 2026.10.26
Basic Information
| Name | Suzuki Boseki |
|---|---|
| Location | Yuki, Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture |
| Designation | Registered Tangible Cultural Properties (2) |
| Coordinates | 36.30454, 139.87553 |
